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Knowledge Editing (KE) aims to correct and update factual information in Large Language Models (LLMs) to ensure accuracy and relevance without computationally expensive fine-tuning. Though it has been proven effective in several domains,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Ching Ming Samuel Lau , Weiqi Wang , Haochen Shi , Baixuan Xu , Jiaxin Bai , Yangqiu Song

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various tasks. However, their ability to generate human-like text has raised concerns about potential misuse. This underscores the need for reliable and effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Runheng Liu , Heyan Huang , Xingchen Xiao , Zhijing Wu

Intrinsic self-correct was a method that instructed large language models (LLMs) to verify and correct their responses without external feedback. Unfortunately, the study concluded that the LLMs could not self-correct reasoning yet. We find…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Zhenyu Wu , Qingkai Zeng , Zhihan Zhang , Zhaoxuan Tan , Chao Shen , Meng Jiang

The rise of large language models (LLMs) is revolutionizing information retrieval, question answering, summarization, and code generation tasks. However, in addition to confidently presenting factually inaccurate information at times (known…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Henry Gilbert , Michael Sandborn , Douglas C. Schmidt , Jesse Spencer-Smith , Jules White

This paper investigates using knowledge editing techniques to detoxify Large Language Models (LLMs). We construct a benchmark, SafeEdit, which covers nine unsafe categories with various powerful attack prompts and equips comprehensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Mengru Wang , Ningyu Zhang , Ziwen Xu , Zekun Xi , Shumin Deng , Yunzhi Yao , Qishen Zhang , Linyi Yang , Jindong Wang , Huajun Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly transforming software engineering, with coding assistants embedded in an IDE becoming increasingly prevalent. While research has focused on improving the tools and understanding developer…

In this paper, we investigate how efficiently large language models (LLM) can be trained to check whether an answer is already stored in their parametric memory. We distill an LLM-as-a-judge to compute the IK (I Know) score. We found that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Hervé Déjean

As Large Langue Models have been shown to memorize real-world facts, the need to update this knowledge in a controlled and efficient manner arises. Designed with these constraints in mind, Knowledge Editing (KE) approaches propose to alter…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Marco Scialanga , Thibault Laugel , Vincent Grari , Marcin Detyniecki

While Knowledge Editing has been extensively studied in monolingual settings, it remains underexplored in multilingual contexts. This survey systematizes recent research on Multilingual Knowledge Editing (MKE), a growing subdomain of model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Nadir Durrani , Basel Mousi , Fahim Dalvi

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a groundbreaking technology with their unparalleled text generation capabilities across various applications. Nevertheless, concerns persist regarding the accuracy and appropriateness of their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Jie Huang , Xinyun Chen , Swaroop Mishra , Huaixiu Steven Zheng , Adams Wei Yu , Xinying Song , Denny Zhou

One way to address safety risks from large language models (LLMs) is to censor dangerous knowledge from their training data. While this removes the explicit information, implicit information can remain scattered across various training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Johannes Treutlein , Dami Choi , Jan Betley , Samuel Marks , Cem Anil , Roger Grosse , Owain Evans

Large Language Models (LLMs) that can be deployed locally have recently gained popularity for privacy-sensitive tasks, with companies such as Meta, Google, and Intel playing significant roles in their development. However, the security of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zibo Gao , Junjie Hu , Feng Guo , Yixin Zhang , Yinglong Han , Siyuan Liu , Haiyang Li , Zhiqiang Lv

Recent works have attempted to integrate external knowledge into LLMs to address the limitations and potential factual errors in LLM-generated content. However, how to retrieve the correct knowledge from the large amount of external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Haowei Du , Dongyan Zhao

Large language model (LLM) unlearning has become a critical mechanism for removing undesired data, knowledge, or behaviors from pre-trained models while retaining their general utility. Yet, with the rise of open-weight LLMs, we ask: can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Bingqi Shang , Yiwei Chen , Yihua Zhang , Bingquan Shen , Sijia Liu

Knowledge Editing (KE) is a field that studies how to modify some knowledge in Large Language Models (LLMs) at a low cost (compared to pre-training). Currently, performing large-scale edits on LLMs while ensuring the Reliability,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Wentao Wan , Qiqing Lao , Zhiwei Xie , Hefeng Wu , Runnan Lin , Liang Lin , Keze Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have garnered significant attention in recent years due to their impressive performance. While considerable research has evaluated these models from various perspectives, the extent to which LLMs can perform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Guimin Hu , Hasti Seifi

Large language models (LLMs) often produce incorrect or outdated content after being employed. Efficient and accurate knowledge updates without costly retraining are a major challenge. This problem is particularly challenging in lifelong…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Xuyuan Liu , Shengyu Chen , Xinshuai Dong , Yanchi Liu , Xujiang Zhao , Haoyu Wang , Yujun Yan , Haifeng Chen , Zhengzhang Chen

Adversarial attacks by malicious users that threaten the safety of large language models (LLMs) can be viewed as attempts to infer a target property $T$ that is unknown when an instruction is issued, and becomes knowable only after the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Masahiro Kaneko , Timothy Baldwin

A Large Language Model (LLM) tends to generate inconsistent and sometimes contradictory outputs when presented with a prompt that has equivalent semantics but is expressed differently from the original prompt. To achieve semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jingyuan Yang , Dapeng Chen , Yajing Sun , Rongjun Li , Zhiyong Feng , Wei Peng

The imperative task of revising or updating the knowledge stored within large language models arises from two distinct sources: intrinsic errors inherent in the model which should be corrected and outdated knowledge due to external shifts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Xunjian Yin , Jin Jiang , Liming Yang , Xiaojun Wan